"Previous searchers for the cryptogram have suggested that it may-
lie in the italicised words in "Cold Iron", the opening story:-

Them, I, heard, I, that, all, was, he, he, that, do, and, was, I, as,
can, was.

Treated as an anagram, they make:-

He is Adam: he was the Christian Law that was not dead.

There are four letters left over:- a, l, a, h. My theory is that these do
not mean anything in particular but were needed to make the rest up
into whole words. But perhaps some ingenious reader can improve on
my version?"

I must say that a cryptogram which iinvolves an anagram with letters missed does not satisfy the Araucarian in me.

While on the subject, some members will remember that I opened my account with this List, on joining the Society, with the idea that Dayspring Mishandled might contain clues that Kipling actually knew the truth behind the Piltdown Hoax. Conspiracy theorists might enjoy the version at http://www.tiac.net/~cri_a/piltdown/blossom.html

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Eric Thompson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear list members,

On Monday 26 September 2011 Jane Keskar asked:

JK> Can anyone help Roger Morgan with his query about
JK> the cryptogram in Rewards and Fairies?

All I can offer is that the reference has a note in Thomas Pinney's 1990 edition of 'Something of Myself' to say that "What RK means has not yet been discovered" [note 27 on page 258, relating to the third paragraph on page 111].

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Yours sincerely,

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